Petition

Alvis Burnett to Beriah Magoffin

1861-03-18

Date of Creation
March 18, 1861
Document Genre
Petition
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862
Box / Folder
MG19-127
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0723
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32209131

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Alvis Burnett to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-03-18, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-020-0723 (November 13, 2026).

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To His Excellency the Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky your petitioner Alves Burnett would Respectfully represent that at the last November election He and Some other Young Men was engaged in a political discussion in which a fist fighte insued in which your petitioner partisipated for the purpose of rescuing or Saving a relation from Serious injury

your petitioner acted under excitement and may of acted imprudently at the time for which he was Tride before N B Jones Judge of Laurel County Court and fined four dollars He states that there was no Injury done in the fight that this is the only fight or dificulty that he ever had that he is a poore boy has no means to Spair To pay the fine altho the amount is Small

He therefore asks that the fine be remitted

Alvis Burnett

Sworn to before me by Alves Burnett the 18th day of March 1861

N. B. Jones J. L. C. C

we are well acquainted with Alvis Burnett know him to be a young man of good morals and never herd of his having a dificulty with any one except the one here referred To,

Levi Jackson
N. B. Jones J. L. C. C

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Remitted
B. M
Laurel Co Ct
$4
Alvis Burnett
IssdApr 4. 1861